The 1974-1979-1980 Canadian National Elections and Quebec Referendum Panel Study (ICPSR 8079)

This study is a continuation of the 1974 Canadian Election
Study, which consisted of extensive personal interviews with a
national sample of 2,562 respondents following the federal election of
July 8, 1974. Immediately following the federal election of May 22,
1979, 1,295 of the original respondents were successfully contacted
and interviewed, thereby creating a 1974-1979 panel study. In
addition, a new national sample of the l979 electorate and a
supplementary sample of young voters (age... (more info)

This study is a continuation of the 1974 Canadian Election
Study, which consisted of extensive personal interviews with a
national sample of 2,562 respondents following the federal election of
July 8, 1974. Immediately following the federal election of May 22,
1979, 1,295 of the original respondents were successfully contacted
and interviewed, thereby creating a 1974-1979 panel study. In
addition, a new national sample of the l979 electorate and a
supplementary sample of young voters (aged 18-23) were drawn and
personal interviews utilizing the same questionnaire were conducted
with respondents in these samples. After the federal election of
February 18, 1980, 1,748 respondents in both the panel and
cross-section samples were contacted by telephone and
reinterviewed. No new respondents were added to the 1980 sample. When
the Quebec referendum was called for May 20, 1980, a decision was made
to contact by telephone Quebec respondents originally sampled in l974
or 1979 and interviewed in 1980. Of these respondents, 325 were
successfully contacted and reinterviewed. Approximately half of the
interviews were conducted immediately prior to the referendum, and the
remaining half immediately afterward. The 1974 post-election survey
covered a wide range of topics related to citizen participation in
politics. The 1979 survey continued the theme of citizen interest and
involvement in politics and probed respondents' attitudes about
regions, provinces, and national unity. The 1980 telephone interview
asked about vote choice in 1980, party identification, and the issue
of energy. Questions on the Quebec referendum centered around the
respondents' views on constitutional options for Quebec.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: